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                    <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">E-Teacher for IELTS preparation<o:p> - 
                    Community Goals</o:p></b></p>
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                    The term&nbsp;Web 2.0&nbsp;is particularly combined with web applications which facilitate 
                    users to interact and collaborate with each other in a&nbsp;<a 
                        href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media" title="Social media"><span 
                        style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none">social 
                    centered media</span></a>&nbsp;as a creators of&nbsp;<a 
                        href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-generated_content" 
                        title="User-generated content"><span 
                        style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none">user-generated 
                    content</span></a>&nbsp;or as users viewing of&nbsp;<a 
                        href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_(media_and_publishing)" 
                        title="Content (media and publishing)"><span 
                        style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none">content</span></a>&nbsp;that 
                    created for them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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                    Here in E-teacher for IELTS community, target specially the IELTS candidates who 
                    are preparing for the IELTS Academic or General Training tests. Qualified 
                    English Teachers or students who have already done the exam can join to the 
                    e-community and share their ideas, learning materials which they referred to the 
                    community. So the other members who are looking for information, online IELTS 
                    materials can join with E-teacher and used those materials to understand what 
                    they really need to improve for the IELTS exam and how to reach for the maximum 
                    band score which they need. Also students who were participated for the exam can 
                    share their real experience with the community to help the candidates to prepare 
                    for their exams in a positive manner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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                    Both Academic and General Exams examine four sections from a candidate, which 
                    are Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking. In E-Teacher web site includes 
                    materials which will be guide the registered candidate to enhance their 
                    knowledge in each section separately. The registered members can download the 
                    available materials which could be used to self examine their progress and if 
                    they have any doubt about the material they can join to the discussion which is 
                    available bottom of each detail view of each material. So a qualified member who 
                    has much experienced about the problem can start discussing on that, also other 
                    members can contribute their ideas as well. I have used several web 2.0 features 
                    in this site such as sharing information, uploading materials, download and 
                    refer them, rate the material (star rate controller which functioning using Ajax 
                    technology), start discussing in a discussion forum, tag the material, used RSS 
                    feeds, keep a track of material visited count and used that information to sort 
                    out most rated materials, most discussed materials, high contributed users, etc. 
                    Following I will explain how I used these web 2.0 features under each theme.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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                    Users Add value<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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                    When user initially log in to the site they will see a list of available 
                    materials in an user friendly list view with its important details which 
                    influence the user to visit the Material such as its Title, category, user’s 
                    rate for the material and visited count. List view will guide the user to decide 
                    which material, under which category he should have to refer first. So the user 
                    can visit the details view of the particular material from there. Here the user 
                    will able to see the full view of the material and also the values added by the 
                    other users such as ‘star’ rates given by them or the discussion made by them 
                    about the material. Also user will privilege to download the material and refer 
                    it. Then he can provide his own star rate or check tags available there or add 
                    new tag of his own as feedback. These feed backs queried by the system and I 
                    have used those information to add value to the site. For example when a user 
                    tagged a material from given tags or by their own tag will store in the database 
                    and calculate to implement the tag cloud. So without any doubt newer members can 
                    used highly ranked or the materials tag as best for their reference without 
                    wasting their time by navigate to each and every material. So the user’s 
                    decisions made for star a material or tag a material will captured and used to 
                    add value to the site. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;</span>Also in the star 
                    rate control you can compare your own ranking with the average rank which has 
                    calculated from all feed backs provided by the other users. Furthermore 
                    discussion board available under each detail view helps each member to express 
                    their ideas for the particular material or else they can start a discussion by 
                    their own. For example if it’s a reading material, experienced members can give 
                    some tips to how to read and answer questions quickly, or else if it’s speaking 
                    material, give some ideas to the tested topic, tips to improve English accent, 
                    etc. <o:p></o:p></span>
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                    Network effects by default<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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                    Here in E-teacher community I have used several techniques to capture the user 
                    activities which they do unconsciously but help to increase the value of the 
                    material. For example I have keep the number of visited count for each material 
                    available and this number influence the other members to refer that material if 
                    the number shows a higher value than others. Further I have used that value to 
                    nominate potential star holders of the site who owns the highest number of 
                    visited count. So by seeing the star holders the other member also influence to 
                    upload good quality materials to the site and will help to rich material 
                    repository of the site as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </span>
                    More over I have created a tag cloud from the feed backs provided by the users 
                    and the most popular Tag will display in higher font while the others will 
                    remain in lower font styles. So once a user see the tag cloud by default the 
                    user will choose the higher fonts tag and will able to find the best materials 
                    available in the site instantly. I have used tag cloud effects to guide the 
                    community members collected by their own feed backs. <o:p></o:p></span>
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                    Some rights reserved<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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                    The main thing in E-teacher web community is to have access the details of a 
                    material that member have to log in to the community. Before a user login to the 
                    site, he can only view the list of available materials and there he can decide 
                    whether he really wants to join to the community. Once he join (login) to the 
                    community he will gets all the rights to access the materials, download, tag 
                    them and join to a discussion or else rate the material according to his choice, 
                    etc. Further materials which having a higher visited counts will be sorted and 
                    members who had uploaded those materials will be rated as star holders in the 
                    site. Once user has visited the Star Holder list page he will able to categorize 
                    the most potential material up loaders. So then the materials listed down by 
                    those names could be consider as most vital materials in the site, which has 
                    already helped lots of students to reach their maximum IELTS score mark.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                    E-Teacher also includes; <o:p></o:p></span>
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                    User can get the recent updates from provided RSS feedback and also I have 
                    retrieved recent updates of the field from an online free IELTS web feed which 
                    helps for the community members.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                    Also provided a common discussion web space for share each other ideas such as 
                    their own experience during the exam, special exam tips, etc. <o:p></o:p></span>
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